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Quotes About Manipulation

I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.
~ Aldrich Ames
Being from Arizona, the federal government is kind of a Slytherin.
~ Paul Gosar
You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.
~ Holly Near
A lot of females, they want to do the things that I do. Some females are so closed, but they want to be open. Some girls, they want to feel that power that I tell them that I have. I tell women that I have power over these men, that I use these men.
~ Cardi B
We live in a time when fictitious election results elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.
~ Michael Moore
Men know what they want when we help them figure it out. We make them think they figured it out by themselves. They really didn't. We know we did it, and that's a woman's job.
~ Rachel Lindsay
Capitalism and people who control the market have a large hand in everything. It doesn't have anything to do with figuring out what the crowd wants to hear. It has to do with the media deciding what they think people want to hear.
~ Boots Riley
I believe most media is filtered and fake.
~ Nadya Suleman
Officials in every White House crowbar the facts to make their cases.
~ John Dickerson
While the Obama White House is completely incompetent and weak, they know how to spin everyday Americans.
~ Richard Grenell
Manipulating an election in a small developing country doesn't have the same sort of ripple effect of electing Donald Trump into the White House.
~ Christopher Wylie
In East, South and Central Africa, the minority manipulated the majority into believing the minority was the majority, that there were more whites in the world than blacks; instilled in the blacks a sense of inferiority, inadequacy, worthlessness.
~ Peter Abrahams
The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
~ Joseph Stalin
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
~ Frank Herbert
He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
~ James A. Garfield
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
~ Joseph Stalin
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
This is what the Democrats want - for you to ignore whoever is pulling the strings of Joe Biden.
~ Will Cain
To the extent that people overpay as a result of the Libor manipulation, they should be able to get their money back. Individuals who have mortgages, pension funds who had pensioner investments - whoever was ripped off is entitled to get their money back.
~ Peter Welch
Whoever is in charge of the artist will always have the upper hand. They act like it's the artists' world, but it's the other way around, so they're going to do whatever they want to do.
~ Sonny Sandoval
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
~ H. L. Mencken
The whole world is run on bluff.
~ Marcus Garvey
This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.
~ Paul Watzlawick
The harshest thing I can say is I was married to someone for whom all dissent was abuse. If you had your own opinion, you were abusive.
~ Alec Baldwin